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Authorities also investigating whether racial slurs were hurled at a rival team

The team is 4-6 this season

A Massachusetts high school football team canceled the rest of its season after someone scrawled a racial epithet on the home of one of its players.

"Knights don't need [the n-word]," the slur read.

The Blue Knights are the football team at Lunenburg High School, a school 55 miles northwest of Boston.

The epithet was spray painted in large blue letters on the foundation of the ranch-style home where the team's 13-year-old fullback lives.

The incident has brought the FBI to Lunenburg -- and shone a national spotlight on the small town of about 10,000 that is not used to such a harsh glare.

"I don't really understand why someone would even do something like this," the 8th grader told CNN affiliate WCVB. "I have two younger brothers and a younger sister. This is our house, this is where we live. Eventually they're going to see it."